Shane Mauger, manager of New Image Hairdressing, is just one business owner who has complained about the smell of sewage along Les Banques coming from the outfall pipe at the Red Lion. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0784010)

SEWAGE being discharged from the Red Lion outfall pipe smells disgusting and is bad for business, according to local businesses in the area.

The shorter outfall pipe at Belle Greve Bay has been discharging the island’s sewage since Monday morning, while construction work takes place that will preserve the life of the main outfall pipe.

It is likely that the sewage will continue to be discharged along Les Banques until Saturday. The surrounding water is discoloured and seagulls can be seen pecking the surface.

Shane Mauger, whose hairdressing salon is situated on the Longstore junction, said the smell was terrible.

‘When it is sunny like this you need the air coming through and it isn’t nice to be breathing it in.

‘The customers have had no choice but to get used to it,’ he said.

‘I live upstairs and the smell is hard to put up with, day in, day out.’

He said rather than spending ridiculous amounts of money on things that did not need doing, the States should have spent its money on sorting out a sewage treatment works.